Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory
Drawing on a range of works from the English Renaissance, Death and Drama in Renaissance England offers a novel way to understand, in their original contexts, key aspects of Renaissance mental life and letters. Focusing on the classical Memory Arts, William Engel explores issues of death and decline in exemplary dramas, dictionaries, and histories of the period, and demonstrates the ways in which emblems and memory images were used to communicate special meanings.
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Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory
Drawing on a range of works from the English Renaissance, Death and Drama in Renaissance England offers a novel way to understand, in their original contexts, key aspects of Renaissance mental life and letters. Focusing on the classical Memory Arts, William Engel explores issues of death and decline in exemplary dramas, dictionaries, and histories of the period, and demonstrates the ways in which emblems and memory images were used to communicate special meanings.
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Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780199257621 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 02/06/2003 |
Pages: | 214 |
Product dimensions: | 8.94(w) x 5.52(h) x 0.65(d) |
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